Mike Waltz Trump UN ambassador nominee. ex-NSA. Former CEO, Metis Solutions (defense contractor); former Green Beret and three-term congressman from Florida

• Director for Afghanistan policy (past)

Robert F Hale Booz Allen Hamilton fellow and advisor | former Pentagon comptroller

• Comptroller ('09→?)

Emerson Gardner retired USMC Lt. General

• acting Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation ('07→'10)

Deborah Lee James Secretary of the U.S. Air Force | Former sector president, SAIC

• Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs ('93→'98)

Frank Kendall III Biden Air Force Sec.; former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (ATL)

• Director of Tactical Warfare Programs (past)

Michael Rubin Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

• Staff Adviser, Iran and Iraq ('02→'04)

Anthony Cordesman Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, CSIS

• Director of Intelligence Assessment (past)

Philip A Odeen former AES Corporation Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

• principal deputy assistant secretary of defense (past)

Edward Luttwak Senior Associate, CSIS | Advisor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Consultant

Keith Hall former Director, National Reconnaissance Office

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security ('91→'95)

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